Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... times general lessons of moral and political wisdom , has become the business of a distinct class of writers . Of the two kinds of composition into which history has been VOL . I. B thus divided , the one may be compared to a.
... times general lessons of moral and political wisdom , has become the business of a distinct class of writers . Of the two kinds of composition into which history has been VOL . I. B thus divided , the one may be compared to a.
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... become prevalent on the Continent as well as in this country . Italy has already produced a historical novel , of high merit and of still higher promise . In France , the practice has been carried to a length somewhat whimsical . M ...
... become prevalent on the Continent as well as in this country . Italy has already produced a historical novel , of high merit and of still higher promise . In France , the practice has been carried to a length somewhat whimsical . M ...
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... become a state paper , or a judgment delivered by a great magistrate , a Somers or a D'Aguesseau . In this respect the character of Mr. Hallam's mind cor- responds strikingly with that of his style . His work is eminently judicial . Its ...
... become a state paper , or a judgment delivered by a great magistrate , a Somers or a D'Aguesseau . In this respect the character of Mr. Hallam's mind cor- responds strikingly with that of his style . His work is eminently judicial . Its ...
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... becoming than that one turncoat should eulogize another . Many enemies of public liberty have been distinguished by their private virtues . But Strafford was the same throughout . As was the statesman , such was the kinsman and such the ...
... becoming than that one turncoat should eulogize another . Many enemies of public liberty have been distinguished by their private virtues . But Strafford was the same throughout . As was the statesman , such was the kinsman and such the ...
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... become worse than the distempers . But we believe that in his heart he regarded both the parties in the Parliament with feelings of aversion which differed only in the degree of their intensity , and that the awful warning which he ...
... become worse than the distempers . But we believe that in his heart he regarded both the parties in the Parliament with feelings of aversion which differed only in the degree of their intensity , and that the awful warning which he ...
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